How to Crochet Stretching Cats Amigurumi for Kids

Crocheting animals in various poses is the next step to enhance your amigurumi skills. In this post, we have come up with a tutorial on how to crochet a stretching cat amigurumi from Stepsteps perfect for desktop placement. This cat amigurumi tutorial is designed to be accessible for intermediates and allows for customization in colour.

The tutor suggested that it is very similar to her previous standing cat amigurumi except for the tail and head position. Therefore, you can learn to crochet a cat in more than one pose with this project. For the standing cat, you can watch the tutorial found in the description as it is required for this project.

We have added the tutorial at the end of this post. For more information about this project, follow through with us below.

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Skills Needed: Get comfortable with the chain stitch, single crochet, skipping, increase and decrease and before starting the project, the unusual abbreviations that the tutor uses for these crochet stitches. See the translations at the end. Seamless sewing with steel needle (better than darning needle), a little embroidery and working with fleece is also required. The tutor suggests referring to the standing cat for up to 27 rounds.

Guide Span: 11 Minutes Only
Size: about 10cm.

Personalization Tips: Choose from the orange, blue, purple, pink, yellow and light orange to crochet these stretching cats. You can also crochet the mouth using a sewing needle.

Crochet Stretching Cat Tutorial

The crochet standing cat tutorial can be followed down in several parts which may be a bit confusing. So, make sure you follow these instructions: The tutor starts the video tutorial by already crocheting 27 rounds for the body and says that you can learn the parts from the main standing cat body tutorial. Also, the head is the same as Standing Cat’s Head and the Legs are the same as Standing Cat's Hands. This guide only shows you the different parts.

Supplies Needed

Following are the supplies needed for crocheting these stretching cat amigurumi:

Fine weight yarn
2 mm crochet
White Fleece for eyes
Steel Needle
Thin black thread for whiskers and nose
Small beads
Stuffing

Note: Many crocheters prefer using cotton yarn, such as Phildar Cotton 3, which is also suitable for use with a 2mm hook

Abbreviations Used:

The tutor uses the following crochet abbreviations in the on-screen written pattern for this crochet cat amigurumi:

V (Increase): Make two single crochet stitches in the same stitch to increase the stitch count.
Upside down V (Decrease): Insert hook into the next stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop, insert hook into the following stitch, yarn over, pull up another loop, yarn over once more, and pull through all the loops on the hook.
. (Slip Stitch): Insert hook into the stitch, yarn over, and pull through both the stitch and the loop on the hook.
X (Single Crochet): Insert hook into the stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over again, and pull through both loops on the hook.
o (Chain Stitch): Yarn over, and pull through the loop on the hook to create a chain stitch.